Hey all,
My name’s Tory and Rusty was my dad. I saw in another thread that someone found my Facebook post, but I wanted to let you all know that he passed away on November 13th.
You can read his obituary here:
https://www.newcomercincinnati.com/Obituary/270564/I can see that quite a few people noticed his absence over the past few years, so I wanted to let you guys know what happened.
In March of 2019, he had a brain aneurysm and a stroke that unfortunately left him disabled and unable to use a computer. He spent almost a month in the ICU, then the next 6 months or so in a nursing facility until his wife/my mom, Mary, decided to become his caregiver and bring him home. He was making improvements with rehab, but the pandemic put a major hold on his therapies for obvious reasons.
We had to renovate their house to make it wheelchair accessible, and in that process, we sort of put all his important looking stuff in a big pile in the basement.
I’ve been slowly going through his things since he passed, which is what led me here. I’m currently hunting for his laptop with the hopes that my uncle can restore it and recover some of his passwords and files.
His Wackys are also a top priority in what I’m looking for in the basement (they’re there, just not sure where.) I know he had an extensive collection and some rare ones.
My uncle requested to keep a few for the memories, and I’ll probably do the same, but otherwise I think we will sell most of them so actual collectors can enjoy them and to make some money to support my mom who has brain cancer.
Is this a good place to do that, or at least to start?
I’ve also seen people on here talking about issues with links on the Lost Wackys website. If we’re able to recover his passwords and get into the back end of the website, is there anyone here who’d like to help fix it up? I can do basic web dev, but all I really know about Wacky Packs is that the art is cool and my dad collected them
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so I might need someone with more knowledge to make sure things are correct.
Anyway, hopefully I can find his collection within the next week or two and start sorting through and listing things at the beginning of the new year.
I hope everyone’s holiday season is going well (or at least better than mine is

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Best,
Tory